Dems take majority of Rochester's House seats

Tuesday

Nov 6, 2018 at 9:55 PMNov 6, 2018 at 9:55 PM

Kyle Stucker @KyleStucker

ROCHESTER — While Rochester didn’t see the blue wave that some pundits predicted for New Hampshire during Tuesday’s midterm election, Democrats did gain one seat to take the majority in the Lilac City’s nine state House districts.

The party's total number of seats in Rochester grew to five, thanks to Democrat Peg Higgins' defeat of incumbent Republican Tom Kaczynski 1,919-1,693 in District 22, according to the city's unofficial totals. District 22 comprises Wards 1 and 6.

In total, six of Rochester’s eight incumbent state representatives won re-election Tuesday, some in close-fought races.

Republican Mona Perreault was the other candidate to unseat an incumbent, defeating Brandon Phinney in District 24. Phinney had won the district as a Republican in 2016, but ran as a Libertarian this year.

One race, District 12, didn’t have an incumbent because Republican Matt Scruton didn’t run for re-election.

Rochester’s full official results for its 2018 New Hampshire House of Representative races are as follows: